Word: shreveporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...
Dargue's airmen bombed the daylights out of Ben Lear's rear-area supplies (including gasoline for the tanks) as far back as Shreveport. Support aviation, including dive-bombers from the Navy (under Army command), blasted at tanks, then blew up the bridges across the Red River. Meanwhile the Red tanks had been stopped, and the gaps they had made plugged up by sweating infantrymen...
Story. In Shreveport, La., C. E. Whitney returned from nearby Cross Lake with a fish story: on one cast he caught five catfish. Someone had lost a string of five, and one of the five went for Whitney's worm...
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Arctic weather has a bag of tricks that cannot be learned in occasional nights to Alaska or midwinter operations in Minnesota. This winter, many a service pilot and mechanic who has worked at San Diego and Shreveport will head north to beat new enemies-sudden fogs, icing weather, sub-zero temperatures that make engine-starting tough. New hangar and field equipment will have to be designed and tested, new cold-weather clothing tried out. From now on, Alaska becomes a permanent station of U. S. defense...